"To have eight speed limits in less than two kilometres is just ridiculous."

Mr Wheeler said multiple speed limits on city and country roads had become a topic of dinner party conversation among his friends.

"I suppose the school zones are meant to be a well-intentioned project to make the roads safer but it's just that it's got a bit out of hand and I don't think there is anything that can be done. It's what we have to live with from now on. It's just one of those complications of life.

He has travelled 1.7 kilometres and passed eight different speed limits.

"I guess it's very noticeable to me because a year or two ago the speed limit was all the same along here."